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US Plant Patent PP17311

Mourning Dove

Hosta plant named ‘Mourning Dove’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 2, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 20, 2025. This patent earned 12 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17311, the photograph of Mourning Dove printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17311, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17311
Filed
September 20, 2005
Granted
December 26, 2006
Expires
October 2, 2025
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Mourning Dove’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage of wedge-shaped leaves with blue-green centers and yellow-green margins comprising about one fourth of the leaf area. ‘Mourning Dove’ is a medium sized Hosta with a flat mounded plant habit that blooms in late summer with lavender flowers that arise on scapes held almost horizontal to the foliage.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Mourning Dove’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17311 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.